Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

News about Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Dec. 20, 2012

Vladimir Ambroz, head designer of AMOS Design in what is now the Czech Republic, has created updated version of Brno chair designed by Mies van der Rohe; piece is available through AMOS. MORE

Oct. 4, 2012

Interior designer Jacqueline Neil, resident of Pavilion building in Lafayette Park, Detroit, a 1960s urban renewal project designed by Mies van der Rohe, describes living at complex and her approach to decorating; book Thanks for the View, Mr Mies, edited by Danielle Aubert, Lana Cavar and Natasha Chandani, offers portraits of neighborhood's residents. MORE

It is the mother lode of homes by early modern architects: Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Peter Behrens and others. But, set in the hills of Stuttgart, Germany, Weissenhofsiedlung, the landmark 1927 neighborhood built as an experiment in modern...

Today's parents (or grandparents) will pay anything, it seems, to instill good taste in sophisticated children. And what better way to ensure a sense of good design in a toddler than by sending him to his room for time out on a miniature classic...

May 25, 2006, Thursday

An article in the Neighborhood Report pages last Sunday about reaction at the Four Seasons restaurant in the Seagram Building to the death of the architect Philip Johnson, who was a regular there, referred imprecisely to his role in the building....

One of the monuments of Modernist architecture is falling apart, again. Tugendhat Villa, the house that Ludwig Mies van der Rohe built for Grete and Fritz Tugendhat on a hill in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1930, is famous for its open, flowing plan, its...

WHEN John and Dominique de Menil built the first great Modernist house in Texas, in 1950, not everyone was thrilled. ''It was bewildering,'' said Anderson Todd, one of the few Modernist architects in Houston at the time. ''Most people in Houston knew...

A collection of furniture based on drawings by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is now in Knoll showrooms. The pieces, a lounge chair, settee, sofa, ottoman, benches and a square side table, were designed for the Lange and Esters houses in Krefeld, Germany,...

January 29, 2004, Thursday

An article last Thursday about preservationists' efforts to buy the Farnsworth House, a Mies van der Rohe design in Plano, Ill., misstated the cost of repairs after a flood in 1997. It was $250,000, not $10 million. The article also included a...

In just seven minutes of intense telephone bidding, preservationists won the battle yesterday for Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's legendary Farnsworth House, paying $7.5 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York. They competed against only one other...